Whoever controls the DAO, controls the book: The strange tale of Jodorowsky’s...
Please gather around, and listen to this cautionary tale of schadenfreude and greed. This is not a tale for the faint of heart; it involves a cabal of crypto-enthusiasts working on a decentralised...
View ArticleAugust Sander’s photographic archive in NFT copyright dispute
You wait months for an NFT case, and then two drop in the matter of days. First an English court confirmed that tokens are property (more on that when I get my hands on the decision), and now there is...
View ArticleCopyright infringement in artificial intelligence art
As AI creative tools are becoming widespread, the question of copyright of AI creations has also taken centre-stage. But while copyright nerds obsess over the authorship question, the issue that is...
View ArticleDo Bored Apes have a copyright problem?
I’ve been catching up with the ongoing case of Yuga Labs v Ryder Ripps. This case involves conceptual artist Ryder Ripps, and Yuga Labs, the makers of the Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFT collection,...
View ArticleCopilot: The next stage in the AI copyright wars?
The copyright wars are back, and this time the conflict is all about artificial intelligence. While most of the public has been paying attention to what is going on with AI art tools such as DALL-E,...
View ArticleCan Bill Willingham release ‘Fables’ into the public domain?
Fables is a popular comic book series written by Bill Willingham that follows characters from fairy tales who have formed a clandestine community in New York. Willingham is the sole writer of the...
View ArticleFrench lawmakers propose new copyright law about generative AI
On September 12, several French lawmakers from the Assemblée nationale presented a law proposal to the Presidency which has the objective of reform some norms in existing copyright law (text of the...
View ArticleChinese court declares that AI-generated image has copyright
The copyright law world has been abuzz last week with news that a court in the People’s Republic of China decided that a work generated with Stable Diffusion had copyright, and therefore the author...
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